Speaking at the monthly Chamber of Commerce Legislative Forum, division engineer Darrin Saliba said one project would entail replacing the bridges on US 75 south of Okmulgee and the other would handle bridge repairs on Interstate 40.
Bid opening is going to be July, 2015 with an estimated $22 million price tag. Work is expected to take over 500 calendar days according to ODOT estimates.
Both north and south bound traffic will be affected with some one-lane routing planned throughout the work.
Traffic is expected to be diverted to one lane each way along the interstate during the project.
In addition to the bridge work on I-40, cable barriers will also be installed.
Saliba said he has been working with Henryetta city manager Ted Graham and chamber executive director Roy Madden on that part of the project.
"The existing asphalt connector at the decoy faculty is defective." One of the things ODOT is looking at is building a new connector.
That would also entail moving the bridge by Anchor Glass and, since there is an I-40 bridge across the same abandoned railroad, that would be removed as well.
Saliba did not go into detail how the engineering would be replacing those structures.